Shanah Tovah.
It's really good that we can simply be together after what we have experienced. And although we have been relatively unscathed here, we were exposed to aspects of our vulnerability that we don't...

Shabbat Shalom
Last Shabbat as the winds were kicking up, I thought about how meaningful it is to have Shabbat in life’s most difficult moments.
Everything felt uncertain. We didn’t know how bad the storm would...

My friend Donniel Hartman refers to this time on the calendar as the contemporary High Holy Days.
Yom HaShoah has a profound impact on contemporary Israel, the psyche of the Jewish people and certainly its...

Parsha Vayakhel 5777 Rabbi David Steinhardt
March 25, 2017
Shabbat Shalom
I know what you're all thinking…I wonder if Rabbi is even able to give a sermon! He must be quite rusty!
It has been quite a season...

Rabbi David Steinhardt
February 4, 2017
Shabbat Shalom
Several years ago, shortly after President Barack Obama was elected, he acted on something which many people, including himself, considered to be mistaken. President Obama appeared at a news...